News and facts about French healthcare.

The operation on the back using virtual reality was carried out on Tuesday, November 7, at the hospital of the University of Montpellier. This is the first such operation in the world. This Tuesday in the operating room of Gui-de-Chauliac, in Montpellier, it was quite intense, and this is not surprising, given the fact that such an operation has never been carried out in ..

France is a luxury country, treatment in France is very expensive! False Really, many Parisian clinics are pretty expensive, however, their patients understand that they pay for the high level of service, but not for the quality of the medicine. Everybody knows that the quality of French medicine is high throughout the country, even in towns. On average, the prices in Fr..

An HSE surgery with no waiting lists. Why do patients in Ireland – both North and South – have to wait for a hospital operation for months, and in some cases even for years, unless they have private medical insurance or they can afford expensive private surgery? Public hospital waiting lists on both sides of the Irish border are growing longer on a weekly bas..

Presidential elections took place a little over a month ago in France and Emmanuel Macron was elected as the new president. This is the youngest French president in the country’s history. Earlier, Macron was an investment banker and in a consequence the Minister of Economy and Finance. It is not hard to fathom that the new president has no problem with the economy. ..

HAS is an independent government body whose aim is to contribute to the quality and effectiveness of the healthcare system. Its main mission is to provide all patients and users with access to effective medical care. The supreme healthcare body performs three main functions: assessment, references, and certifications/accreditations: The assessment is the analysis of pro..

The Moscow MedShow is a unique B2C exhibition in Moscow. The Moscow MedShow is an efficient B2C exhibition that will provide you a direct connection with your targeted audience – Russians that are eager to get high-quality treatment abroad. Its implementation has become a pleasant tradition. The best medical facilities of the world take part in it. Participants from..

We want to tell you about these operations, which allow deleting parts of a thyroid gland without making scars on your neck. What function does a thyroid gland have? It secretes hormones, which are necessary for each cell’s work. People can’t live without these hormones, therefore when the gland doesn’t secret them in sufficient quantity, they must be s..

 March 3 – 4, 2016Austria, Vienne  The Health Tourism Industry Conference in Vienna was an eye-opening event that made us look at medical tourism from a different angle and compare French medicine with other medical systems in the world. A year's worth of effort of learning everything about the healthcare field would be still less than all the informa..

It lies in our human nature that we never lose hope and always try to find an ultimate solution. So when such bad news as cancer falls on us, we are shocked and feel lost, but we keep on hoping we will get the right cure. No matter which stage we are at, what treatment we have already tried, what is the prognosis, we still try. Fortunately, medical specialists in France do..

A world premiere:  France is known to be a country with advanced medicine, especially when it comes to oncology.  It is gaining its popularity in the world thanks to the numerous oncologic markers and their interpretation art, mastered by the French oncologists. Also, thanks to the innovative treatment techniques that not only kill tumors but also improve t..

Aortic valve replacement is a cardiac intervention performed to treat a failing aortic valve. This type of surgery is executed to replace a diseased valve. It can be degenerating because of different diseases, such as stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage); it may be congenital (abnormal from birth) or an acquired disease (diseased with age). In e..

Hip replacement surgery is one of the most common orthopedic surgeries. There are various reasons as to why this surgery is so necessary for seniors and people with a sports background. Despite the fact that such intervention is very frequent, it is still risky and should be performed only by highly qualified orthopedic surgeons. Fortunately, thanks to constant technology ..